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conspiracy or no conspiracy...the derivatives market fiasco discussed here is one huge asteroid headed towards the world economy.

Why does the reaming of the American taxpayer aka "bailout plan" use March 14, 2008 as the basis for the bailout? Did the morons not realize by ummm, say, December of 2007 (when the Federal Reserve started its own bailout schemes - TAF, etc.) that there was a problem and that they shouldn't be...

Start drinkin' - heavily, very heavily :D

OK, I am no banker, but...it appears to me (and yes I could be wrong) that it is going to get soo bad that the several agencies (FR, FDIC, OCC, etc.) want to bend the rules for banks, so that banks can purchase other (bankrupt) banks and not have to reduce tier 1 capital for paying above fair...

The Kin, I do believe you are correct, the "President's Working Group on screwing the average taxpayer" errr, I mean "President's working group on financial markets" aka PPT did appear to meet on Friday. We can only wonder where we the taxpayers will lose! -gastropod

Try this link... http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/pspa_factsheet_090708%20hp1128.pdf The pdf is named something like... pspa_factsheet_090708%20hp1128.pdf Regards, gastropod

That was my thought too!!! Further, what impact will flooding the bond market with trillions of dollars of bonds have on the market? -gastropod

Did anybody else besides me notice that $4.3 Trillion has to be liquidated in 15 months? Check out the last two lines of this pdf -> http://www.treasury.gov/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/reports/pspa_factsheet_090708%20hp1128.pdf What am I missing? How am I wrong...

Reminds me of the Woody Allen movie "Bananas" where two policemen are debating, "Will you vote for the Red dictator or the Blue dictator?" and one of them says, " I am ready for change, this time I will vote for the red dictator." (or something similar - the point is the same) BTW, the red...

It is the other way around...Pakistan is learning from the US. The PPT is keeping the markets artificially high. -gastropod

Definition of a pessimist: An informed optimist :D -gastropod

I would suggest: If you don't know what they are, then don't play with them. Things like the MTU are set by somebody other than you. I mean the MTU is between you and your Internet connection provider. An MTU of 16,000 is great...if you are close to the source and your provider can handle...

Thanks The-Beaker, this stomach with feet is definitely listening!!! You have brought attention to financial facts that are rarely seen in US financial news! -gastropod

For the last month M1 has been growing quicker than M2. You can see this here: Beginning here -> http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/ and then on to specific releases... http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/Current/ http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/20080807/...

"If you listen to fools, the mob rules." -Ronald James Dio (aka Ronnie James Dio ;-) )

"Sic semper tyrannis" - I have not left things "as usual"..."all in due time, my pretty" ROFLMAO -gastropod P.S. I will wait to see the result of something I have done :-) The "all in due time, my pretty" is from the "Wizard of Oz" - the witch is saying to Dorothy that she will get the...

Hear, hear!!! I am with womblevader -have you morons never heard that all they are pulling out of the ground these days is "young" cotton, "immature" polyester and "premature" nylon?!?!? The days of mature cotton (useable for clothing) are long since gone. Peak cotton was like 1865, IIRC -...

Err, I think I meant to say "more" and not "less" in that last sentence...sorry!

Landis82, yes, I did take the Econ 101 courses...just that I had the most boring human ever created teaching them....needed a No-doze(TM) the size of a grapefruit just to make it to the end of the class ;-) BTW, thanks for responding! Ok, if I understand your paraphrasing of the GS...

Has anybody else noticed the crap being spewed out there? Here is what I mean - it is round robin. The dollar is getting stronger, so oil prices are going down. And vice versa - the oil price is going down, so the dollar is getting stronger. It can't be both ways! Here is another...